It is well established that financial services firms willnever, ever collaborate at the proprietary end of the spectrum and they go to tremendous lengths to guard their intellectual property.
This puts political and ethical limits on how far the drive for economic equality ought to go. (Strictly practical limits, as well, since too noble a determination to take from the rich to give to the poor willend up impoverishing everyone.) It also means that perfect economic equality should never be embraced, even implicitly, as an ideal.